Arithmetic Facts Flashcards

Arithmetic Facts Flashcards

Guidelines:

The Three Stacks.  Initially, some (if not all) of the new flashcards are divided into a weekly stack and a daily stack.  After several weeks of daily work, a finished stack is created. 

Getting Started.  Individual flashcards are initially created by cutting the flashcard sheets along the lines.  Answers should be written lightly in pencil on the back.  On the first day, go through a large stack of new flashcards (perhaps more than 100 cards), by dividing it into two stacks: the weekly stack, which are those cards the child knows very well and quickly (e.g. as quickly as one ought to know 2+3=5), and the daily stack, which are those cards the child either doesn’t know, or should be recalled more quickly.

<  The child then needs to practice the daily stack every day for the rest of the week.  Then, on the determined day of the week, shuffle together the weekly stack and the daily stack, and go through it all in order to create a new daily stack and weekly stack.  Once the weekly stack becomes smaller you can add more new flashcards to it.  The daily stack should never be so big that it takes too much time to get through; it should be between 10 and 50 cards, and take just a few minutes to get through.  The drive to school can be an ideal time to do the daily stack.  Once a card has been in the weekly stack for about two months and there seems to be no chance that it will ever be forgotten, then it can be put into the finished stack.  The goal is to have all of the flashcards end up in the finished stack.  Even this finished stack should be reviewed a couple times per year.

Read more:

• http://www.violympic.org/download/Arithmetic-facts-flashcards.doc
• Arithmetic Review Sheets for 7th grade - from 6th grade wkbk (.doc)